ronniek@cs.tamu.edu (Ronnie Killough) (03/27/90)
I had a user mail to me stating that when he tried to read the gcc man page, he got permission denied in /usr/man/cat1/gcc.1. I checked and *all* of the preformatted pages in /usr/man/cat? are owned by, apparently, whoever first viewed the man page. The man man page even states that whoever views a man page will, if he has permission, place a preformatted version in cat? if one is not already there. My question is, why assign ownership to that person? If the person's default mode includes world readability, it's not too much of a problem, but if not, the problem above occurs. Why doesn't the system assign ownership to root with rw-r--r-- permissions? Is this a bug? Thanks, Ronnie Killough